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Finding Calm In in the Storm of Cheer Season

by CheerAdmin in Blog
October 26, 2021December 8, 2021

The cheerleading season can be a long and difficult time with a lot of challenges. Nerves get frazzled. People get angry with one another, and a lot of things can go wrong. One thing you should do during the season to help keep things from going astray is to focus on finding peace and calm, especially during practices and competitions.

It starts with self-care

As a member of your cheerleading squad, it is really important that you take care of yourself. Some of this comes from eating healthy foods, exercising regularly, and doing little things like stretching every day, to keep yourself from having injuries. But there is more to self-care than just the physical side. Self-care also requires mental discipline. Consider taking a few minutes each day to meditate. A little calmness in your personal life every morning can make a huge difference in taking on the hectic events of the day.

Squad communication is key

You and your squad work together as a team. You all have a common goal, but the path forward in achieving that goal varies from person to person. Sometimes you and your squadmates get into arguments. This is only natural, but there are a few strategies you can utilize to make sure that your disagreements stay healthy and don’t devolve into shouting matches in front of the rest of the team. When you are having conflict with squad members, consider taking just a few minutes to scream. Not at anyone on your team, not at your coach, but just to scream and work out some of those feelings of frustration. Instead, just take a minute or two and scream as loud as you can when things get bad. You may feel silly, but it’s cathartic. You will be able to come together and speak more calmly about the things that are making you unhappy once you have given those frustrations a place to land.

Kindness pays dividends

When you are in the midst of something that you feel passionate about, it can be easy to let your passion get the better of you and say something that is mean or cruel to someone who disagrees with you. This is something you and the rest of the athletes on your team need to avoid at all costs, not just with your fellow cheerleaders, but with people outside of your squad as well. Being kind to people pays huge dividends. Being nice to each other while you work out your differences can be much harder than just letting your emotions go, but the potential for irreversible damage from speaking in anger is high. A little kindness to that squad member who is having a tough day and can’t quite hit the skills is going to make them improve more quickly than screaming or yelling at them ever would.

Consider how your team treats others

Cheerleaders are often viewed as the “mean girls” of their programs. Because you are highly motivated athletes who are acclimated to performing in the public eye, you frequently take those same standards and apply them to others. This is a natural thing to do, but it does not excuse cheerleaders from being cruel to other groups at your school or at your athletic complex. Think about how people perceive you and your friends, and take those same concepts of kindness that you’re using with your squadmates and apply them to people outside of your team. You will find that people are more positive towards you as a group and more willing to help you and your teammates when you need assistance.

Cheerleading season is long and grueling. Competition season for some All-Star programs now is over a year long. Tryouts start before the world championships, and those teams work together through the end of Worlds. This gives you a lot of time to get into disagreements and do things that are both physically and psychologically damaging to your teammates. Take a few minutes and find the calmness within yourself and your squad. Try to implement healthy self-care practices, practice kindness as an activity, and most importantly think about the people that you work with every day and take their feelings into consideration when you are acting. By doing these things you will find that the entire season is more pleasant and that you look forward to cheerleading even more than before.

How to max out your score sheet

by CheerAdmin in Blog
October 19, 2021January 24, 2022

Tryouts are over, and your squad looks to be the best one ever. You and your fellow athletes couldn’t be more excited to create the most epic routine and win that trophy. However, the perfect cheerleading performance is more than just sweet dance moves and awesome stunts. There are several things to consider as you start to design the routine that will astound the judges.

Perfection Before Progression

Your choreographer put the most amazing stunt sequence into your routine. One problem: your team cannot hit the skills. The solution – break down complex skills into a series of easier ones, and work on perfecting those fundamentals before moving onto harder variations. You cannot do a switch-up if your team struggles with a straight-up liberty. By mastering fundamental skills, your squad will progress more quickly towards difficult ones. More importantly, you will find your team can advance to difficult skills more consistently once you have perfected the basics.

Emphasize the Positive!

Your team has the most beautiful full-twisting layouts in the country, but those gymnasts on your squad have difficulty hitting a clean high-V. Move those fulls front and center, and make your tumbling sequence a little longer, while keeping your cheer short and sweet (make sure it hits the minimum 8-counts for the competition requirements). The secret to improving your overall impression score is to make sure the judges get to see everything you can do well, while giving them little time to deduct on the things which aren’t quite as amazing.

Clean, Consistent Practice

At the end of choreo, this routine looks like the best one your squad has ever performed. However, two months later you still have not had full team attendance to a practice, and half your team has forgotten the dance. The only way to rock that epic dance and earn that trophy is to make sure that your whole team is committed to coming to practice, and working on those skills until you hit it every time. Then practice even more, so that you cannot miss it. When everyone is present and giving their all there is nothing that your squad cannot accomplish!

Getting the Perfect Cheer Mix

Your coach drilled you for months, you got countless bumps and bruises cleaning those double-downs, but the sound effect for the dismount is two counts off! All that hard work could be lost if you do not have a perfect cheer mix with sound effects and vocals as unique as your team. Think about a unique, customized mix from a company like New Level Music as the sound track for your season. If you have a smaller budget consider the many options at CheerleadingMix.com which lets you choose a top-quality cheer mix and add team specific voiceovers and phrases. Getting the perfect music will showcase your skills to the world!

Check the Rubric

Imagine this. Your team executes flawless kick fulls in your pyramid, but the competition does not score dismounts as part of the pyramid score. Different cheerleading competition organizations use different rubrics to score your performance. Aligning your routine with the rubric will make a huge difference in your score on the day of the competition. Be certain to visit the website for the competitions you are planning to attend this year and get a copy of the rubric BEFORE choreography starts. Don’t be afraid to show the rubric to the choreographer and work with them to create the greatest routine those judges have ever seen.

Your team works hard all year to create the perfect cheerleading performance. Don’t let all that work go to waste with a routine that does not meet your goals. A little careful consideration before choreography and an honest assessment of your team’s abilities will help you to create a performance that you and your squad can be proud of.

How to create a dramatic moment

by CheerAdmin in Blog
October 12, 2021January 24, 2022

One of the things that you really want to achieve when you are trying to create cheerleading music is a moment. A memorable moment where everything hits perfectly, is choreographed to the music perfectly, and it inspires some sort of emotional response from those who are watching.

The question of course is how do you create this sort of moment? The answer is surprisingly simple: you create drama through dynamic manipulation.

What are Dynamics?

Dynamics are some sort of change in fundamental elements of your cheerleading music. When you think about a cheer music mix: it is generally the same tempo, the same volume, the same style of music throughout. By changing those elements during the routine you create more drama. When a mix has the same drum beats over and over again, it gets monotonous. There is no variation in the tempo or energy in music, but this is actually all you need to complete a cheerleading routine: the right number of eight counts for your routine allows you and your squad to synchronize all the elements in your performance. However, that monotony makes for a pretty boring cheerleading mix.

How can you manipulate dynamics?

You can play with music dynamics by taking elements of your cheer routine music and changing it to make it noticeably different so that it goes through peaks and valleys throughout the course of the routine. You can create drama, for example, if you take the volume of your cheerleading routine and suddenly drop it down to complete silence right before a big skill hits. This creates a response from the crowd because the stunt seems more impactful.

As another example, if your entire routine is hip hop and suddenly you change to an orchestral piece, this really changes the feeling of the music. Genre and style dynamics can be just as powerful as volume manipulation. Even tempo can be manipulated in cheerleading music. Manipulating tempo can be challenging since your squad has to jump, tumble, and stunt at an appropriate speed. Still, clever use of tempo can create different time signatures within your performance. Jumps typically have to be at a certain speed, but running tumbling can often be faster. By changing these dynamic elements of your cheer music mix you can create drama.

Thinking about elements like volume, tempo, and music style you can create a dramatic routine which inspires those who are watching it to feel it as viscerally as those who are performing it. As you’re looking for the perfect cheer music for your season at cheerleadingmix.com, think about those dynamic elements and how you can use them to maximize the effect of what you and your squad are doing in the routine.

Does cheer music affect your score?

by CheerAdmin in Blog
October 5, 2021January 24, 2022

Cheerleading music is one of the main elements to putting together a quality competition routine, and there are a lot of options for cheerleading music out there right now. Which brings up the question: what difference does cheerleading music really make? Can the music make a difference in your score? The answer is YES. Here are some considerations when choosing your cheerleading mix for the year.

Seamless Music Streamlines Your Transitions

You and your squad work really hard on making clean transitions between each of the elements in your cheerleading routine. If your music is jerky or has weird transitions from one section to another, then the smoothness you and your squad are showing off will still seem abrupt and uneven. Having seamless music in your routine makes it easier for your squad to have extreme transitions between skills.

Sound Effects Highlight Critical Elements

The athletes on your team spend countless hours perfecting their tumbling skills and working on those stunts. Your pyramid literally took your team a month to master. However, some of these key moments might be lost if you do not have music that highlights the critical elements in these routines. More importantly, having the right sound effect at the right time can really take your routine from an 8 to a 10. Picking music with high-quality, well-produced sound effects that align with the skills your team executes will make a significant impact on how your team is scored.

Musicality Enhances Your Routine’s “Story”

Every cheerleading routine tells a story. Sometimes that story is raw and powerful with strong skills and very clean transitions. Sometimes it is more fluid and musical. Selecting the epic cheer music mix which reflects the story you are trying to tell is critical: if you cannot tell the story with the music, you won’t be able to tell your story with the routine.

Custom Lyrics Motivate Your Team

Over the course of the cheerleading season, you and your team are going to develop all sorts of personal mantras that motivate and inspire your squad to do better. Incorporating those personal elements into your music will make you feel the music in a way that you wouldn’t if you didn’t have those sorts of elements in them. Selecting a high-quality cheerleading mix which has customized voiceovers including key elements from you and your squad will help the athletes on your team stay motivated throughout the performance. Personal music makes personal performances.

Ultimately, it is the difficulty of the skills which you exhibit and how cleanly you execute them which decide your score. While there are a lot of other more subtle elements which can also make a significant difference, none of them are more important than your cheer music mix. Think about what you and your squad have done to make this season the best one ever. How would that season feel if you knew you had subpar music pumping behind you while you threw those fulls? Taking elements from your routine into consideration while you are picking out the cheerleading music that you are going to use this season will make a big difference not only in the way it looks on the floor but even how it feels in practice.

How to best utilize eight count music

by CheerAdmin in Blog
September 28, 2021January 24, 2022

That epic cheer routine you see on the stage did not just happen by chance. It took hours of careful choreography and months of practice with the squad to get that performance just right. As important as the skills executed in the routine is the musicality and performance of those skills. And nothing helps to highlight your squad’s hard work like the perfect cheer mix. If you are new to putting together a cheerleading performance, there are a few things that you should know about cheer mixes in general. Here’s how to best use the unique elements of 8 count music:

Know the Basics

Most of the music you hear on Spotify or TikTok is written in 4 counts. While there are a lot of time signatures in music, rhythms with 4 beats per measure are the most common in pop music. As a result, a lot of dance and cheerleading music is done in 8 counts, two units with 4 beats per unit. You may occasionally hear a 4 count, or even a 12 count, but cheer music is counted in 8 beat sections the majority of the time. This helps performers know when to hit a motion, dip for a stunt, or dish a cradle. The use of 8 counts helps your team synchronize their movements.

Understanding 8 Counts

Because most music in written in 8 counts, there are certain expectations for how those counts align with traditional cheerleading actions. For example, you might hear a choreographer tell you to dip on one. Most of the time the level changes in stunts are initiated on odd numbers. Meanwhile, in the cheer and dance sections of a routine, the hardest hits frequently happen on the even numbers. Understanding the traditions of how 8 count music is used in cheerleading will help you to use your cheer mix to emphasize your squad’s skills.

Using an 8 Count Track for Choreography

When you initially learned your choreography and started putting your routine together with your squad, you had someone who counted to 8 for you to help your team synchronize their movements. However, counting to 8 over and over again is pretty boring, and doing it at the same tempo for over two minutes is really difficult. That is why music providers like CheerleadingMix.com, NewLevelMusic.com and CheerMusicPro.com provide you with a track of music at a standard tempo which has someone count for you! These music producers have provided free tracks to use at practice. You can even find the music on YouTube! Once you have the track, you, your teammates, and your coach can focus on giving each other support and feedback instead of counting to eight 50 times in a row. Just hit play and show off your amazing skills. You can even perform your routine with the 8 count music and video the routine to help you fill out your 8 count sheets for your custom music. Having a video of the routine with a familiar track of music really helps music producers create the perfect cheer mix.

Using an 8 Count Track for Practice

Having access to 8 count music at the touch of a button can also help at practice. New Level Music has even put 8 count music tracks on SoundCloud to make them easy to access. When you and your teammates aren’t worried about shouting the numbers you can focus on proper breathing and technique, helping you to achieve your goals sooner. Cheer music can sometimes take several weeks to arrive, but if you can keep practicing to the 8 count music, you and your team can simulate actual routine tempo and become well-oiled machines when you receive your customized cheerleading mix. Understanding how 8 count music works will help you and your team create the best music which will highlight the hard work and effort you have spent perfecting your cheerleading performance.

Keeping your cheer music legal

by CheerAdmin in Blog
September 21, 2021January 24, 2022

Cheerleading music has undergone a lot of changes since it began as a music genre in the 1980s. Most cheerleading music includes a mix of music from a variety of different artists, created to highlight the skills of the performers. However, the high-quality, professional mixes in today’s cheer music are broadcast in a variety of media outlets. Whether online via TikTok or YouTube, or on a national television broadcast of cheerleading competitions, there are several important laws governing the way that cheerleading music is created and exhibited. Knowing those rules is important. If you have illegal music, your squad may be barred from a competition or party to a fine of up to $150,000 – per performance!

Know the Rules

The rules for cheerleading music have changed significantly in the last decade. Until recently, cheerleading mixes were mash-ups of different copywritten songs. However, each artist or creator of intellectual property is guaranteed certain protections to keep their work exclusively their own. Their ownership to the rights of their work is a cornerstone of U.S. copyright law. Cheerleading music is no exception. In the last 10 years, the USA Cheer Music Copyrights Educational Initiative has been developed to protect creators and their original content. There are a lot of rules involved, but the basic premise is simple. If your cheerleading mix includes songs that were not legally licensed, then your music is probably not legal.

Consult a Professional

U.S. copyright law applies to all cheer music, even if it is only being used as a pep rally or other school function. Broadcasting copywritten music without the express permission of the originator is illegal. There are some grey areas, however. If you are not sure about the rules for your particular performance venue, don’t be afraid to ask a professional. USA Cheer has a list of certified cheerleading music producers like New Level Music and CheerleadingMix.com who know the rules and regulations regarding cheer mixes. They can help you navigate the laws around copyright and intellectual property. Members from the USA Provider list can acquire licenses and permissions for the songs in a cheerleading music mix, and make sure the music you are using is 100% legal.

Consider a Professional Cheer Mix

Once you know the rules, you should be able to make informed decisions about your cheerleading music. Using a preferred vendor like CheerleadingMix.com can help you navigate the laws involving copywritten music. Approved cheer music producers will be able to acquire and document the licenses which are needed to use copywritten materials in a public performance. Getting a professional music production team to help get that perfect mix will make your cheerleading routine epic and bring the crowd to their feet every time you hit.

Tips For Choosing Cheer Music

by CheerAdmin in Blog
September 14, 2021January 24, 2022

You and your team have put time, sweat, and a lot of work into creating the perfect cheerleading performance. However, no performance is complete without flawless cheer music. Having the best cheerleading music doesn’t just happen, it takes a lot of thought and consideration. Here are a few points to ponder from your friends at CheerleadingMix.com to help you find the perfect cheer mix that will really make your performance pop!

Think About the Purpose

Whether you are preparing to compete in a big arena with thousands of screaming fans, or are putting on a recreational league cheer dance for the parents, having music that fits the mood and purpose of your performance is key. Is your team going for intensity, or are you looking for a cute mix to show off that mini’s performance? The mastering of the music sounds different on the concrete floors of an arena than it does on the loudspeakers of a football field. Taking these sorts of variables into account when designing the perfect cheer mix will only improve the final product.

Know the Rules (or find someone that does)

There are a lot of rules around cheerleading music mixes. Some of the basics include knowing the time limits (if there are any) for your performance, but there are other things to consider as well. Remember: that song on Spotify that you just love was the creation of a music artist who worked hard to create it, and it is their property. Because of this, a lot of cheerleading venues have put some pretty strict rules in place to protect the intellectual property of these artists. If you are not familiar with the rules for your particular event, you can trust the cheer music professionals at CheerleadingMix.com to provide music which is legally licensed, customized for your needs, and aligns with the rules and regulations for most major cheerleading events.

Consider your Style

You and your squad have your own, unique style – you need a cheerleading mix that reflects the one-of-a-kind flair which you and your fellow athletes exhibit at every performance. Your team put a lot of time and effort into creating the perfect cheerleading performance, it should have the perfect cheerleading mix. Are you a rocker? Does your team just love hip-hop? Is EDM the squad favorite? Getting the tone and attitude of your cheer music just right is every bit as important as the tone and attitude of your cheerleading performance.

Avoid the Same Old Songs

It is easy to just request the same songs that are hot on YouTube to be part of your cheerleading mix. Even without copyright issues (see #2 above!) you do not want to be at a competition or an exhibition and find out another team has the exact same songs! Having a unique, customized cheer mix does more than just save you the embarrassment of having the same music, it also highlights the hard work and originality that you and your team put into your routine.

Your team has worked too hard to just have some average, vanilla cheer mix taken from the current Top-40 hits. Having music that reflects your style and highlights your squad’s unique talents is what is really going to take your performance over the top!

How To Improve Your Cheer Skills

by CheerAdmin in Blog
September 8, 2021January 24, 2022

If you have spent any time at cheerleading camp, you have probably heard the phrase “perfection before progression.” It sounds like good advice, but what exactly does it mean? One of the important things that you and your squad should think about whenever you are looking at a new set of skills, is how your team can get to those skills as quickly and as safely as possible. The key to doing that is to make sure that you have fundamental skills fully mastered before you move on to more advanced skills. We call this training paradigm “perfection before progression.”

This essentially means that if you cannot do a cartwheel, you really should not be working on your roundoff. If you cannot do a roundoff you certainly shouldn’t be working on a back handspring. Going through the skills progressions and showing consistent mastery of fundamentals allows your squad to achieve more advanced skills more quickly and much more safely. That covers the progression part of the phrase – but the perfection part is significantly harder to understand.

The real challenge is maintaining a strict skill progression: even hitting a skill three times in a row is not perfection. Perfection happens when a skill is executed completely free of mistakes: not a foot moves, there are no bobbles, the stunt stays in place. Practicing like this requires a lot of discipline and attention to detail. Just hitting a skill does not qualify as perfection. As a result, coaches often end up in conflicts with their athletes because the athletes hit a stunt and want to move on to more advanced skills while the coaches are saying that they are not ready yet. Unfortunately, sometimes the coaches just give in. This is where serious injury and poor technique can occur.

While there are several major issues with not perfecting fundamental skills before moving on to advanced ones, the most important thing is the risk of serious injury. Advanced stunts require a fundamental set of skills which must be fully mastered and a certain level of athleticism from the people involved. You developed both the athleticism and the fundamental skills by perfecting basic stunts. If you cannot do a perfect extension, you should not be working on a liberty. If you cannot do a flawless liberty, then you should not be working on a switch-up.

One of the things that coaches and students must do together is take a critical look at what they are trying to achieve and make sure that they are identifying any problems in those fundamental skills. It is important for you and your teammates to work on basic skills until you get better at them. Too often, at cheerleading competitions, we see teams that can “hit” but cannot perfectly execute their routine. The absence of deductions does not in itself qualify as perfection.

You and your squad need to sit down and agree about what goals you want to achieve over the course of the year and decide what skills you want to showcase. Once you have agreed on this you can break down those advanced skills into a series of fundamental skills that need to be mastered. By working carefully on the basic skills involved in the progression your team will find that they can move more quickly and consistently towards the goals. Avoid the temptation to advance to more difficult skills until you have shown mastery of those fundamentals. This will help avoid injuries, and align your team’s goals with the best practices of the most successful teams in the country.

How cheer music affects a performance

by CheerAdmin in Blog
September 1, 2021January 24, 2022

When you and your squad hear that hot cheer mix, you all start to move whether you want to or not. It’s almost unconscious, moving to the beat and feeling the music. The same is true with the performance itself. Musicality, or the ability to make your moves match up with the music, is a critical element to consider when developing your cheerleading routine.

Dance

Cheerleading music most obviously affects your movement in dance and your score. When you dance to the beat, how well your movements match the tempo and the energy of the music is critical. In fact, for many judges, this is the most important consideration in determining your score: have you effectively managed to capture the energy of the music with your amazing dance moves? Different types of music expect different styles of dance – making sure that the cheer music your squad is using reflects the style of dance they are performing is critical to maximizing your score.

Tumbling

Tumbling is another important area where you must consider how you are using your music. You and your teammates have worked hard to develop your tumbling skills. Showing off those advanced skills during the routine is an important part of your overall score. What you and your teammates may not realize is the relationship between tumbling tempo and music. The tumbling section of a routine is often a little bit faster than the other sections of your cheerleading routine. This is because when you are going full out on tumbling, you are frequently moving more quickly than you would during a dance, during a transition, or during a stunt. To get the best score, your music should reflect that change in intensity.

Stunts and Pyramids

Stunts and pyramids are perhaps the most overlooked areas when we talk about cheerleading music and how it affects your overall score. Using an 8 count track to practice will really help your team synchronize those moves. But that can be done with almost any cheerleading 8-count music. The real difference is finding musicality: finding music which accurately reflects the movements which you and your team are doing during your pyramids and stunt sequences. In the last few years you’ve probably seen several teams be extremely successful not because they necessarily had the most innovative pyramids or the most amazing stunts, but instead because they effectively choreographed their skills to perfectly reflect the energy and timing of the music. You want that professional cheer music sound to highlight the skills in your own routine.

Overall Impression

When the judges are watching your routine, they come away with a certain sense of tone and style for you and your squad. This makes sense: your team has worked on your amazing skills all year. Your music choices impact that tone and overall style as well. You need an epic cheerleading mix to bring those skills to the next level. The overall impression from the judges is frequently as much about how the music and movement together make them feel as it is about just technical skill and difficulty.

If you and your squad can think about the sort of music you like and find a style which matches your individual brand, that will make you feel like you have more invested in your performance. Your teammates have worked too hard to have just average music. Think about visiting a custom cheerleading music site like CheerleadingMix.com or New Level Music to find music which reflects your team’s individual style. Additionally, as your team is putting together your routine, think about how you can reflect the movements of your stunts, tumbling, pyramids, and most of all, your dance, to coordinate what is going on in the music at the same time. By embracing the team’s natural musicality you can make this the best performance ever!

How to map your cheer routine to your premade mix

by CheerAdmin in Blog
August 24, 2021January 24, 2022

In cheerleading, most of the teams perform to custom 8 count music. This has become something of a debate for choreographers. Do you order the music first, and choreograph the routine to the music? Or, do you make the routine first, and then get custom music made? Having custom music made can often be cost-prohibitive and taxing on coaches. However, there are now some new options that are quite affordable and make having custom music widely accessible, even if your team does not have a big budget.

If you were thinking about making your own routine, it is important to think about the structure of your cheerleading mix, and how that will reflect what you are doing in your routine. There are several key elements that you need to think about when you are making cheerleading music. Not every routine has all these elements, but these are the most common elements that we see in cheerleading routines. Thinking about these as you structure your music and your routine will help you have the best performance ever!

1. Opening

Typically, an opening of a cheerleading routine is filled with dynamic skills and high-level energy. Think of show-and-go’s, flyovers, or other skills which may not be technically difficult, but include a lot of energy and movement in them. Complex formations and transitions help to draw the eye: the opening is all about showmanship.

2. Standing tumbling

You and your teammates have worked really hard to develop your tumbling skills. Whether you are throwing back handsprings, tucks, or even two-to-fulls, you want to be able to showcase these skills early in the routine. This allows you to do it before you get too tired and potentially mess up and get deductions.

3. Stunts

Stunts are an important element in every cheerleading routine. You want to have energetic music which really highlights each individual movement. It does not matter whether it is an extension, a tic-tok, a switch up, or the most amazing full arounds. Each one of these skills deserves music that is unique and highlights their difficulty.

4. Cheer

Depending on the sort of competition you are participating in, a cheer may or may not be an element in the actual routine. Sometimes the cheer is before the routine and is considered a separate section. Regardless, you will want music which helps everyone stay on the same tempo while they perform. Nothing is worse than having people cheer at different times.

5. Jumps

Showing off your amazing jumps takes special consideration in the music you are using. Jump tempo is something that has very little flexibility. You can only jump at a certain speed, and you shouldn’t have faster music than your team can jump! So finding the perfect tempo and sound effects that match how your team hits the highest points will really create the best cheer mix for your routine.

6. Running tumbling

You and your squad spent a lot of time in the gym working on that running tumbling. It’s time to show it off. The tumbling section should have high-energy music allowing for the best cross tumbling with the most amazing skills at the end, having music and sound effects which really reflect the skills being executed will take that to another level.

7. Pyramid

The pyramid is often one of the most complicated portions of the routine to get the music just right. There are a lot of moving parts in pyramids, with series of interlocking stunts moving between each other and seamless transitions from one skill to the other the music must be just right. Really thinking and mapping out the pyramid before you pick your music is often helpful. However, if you’re using a premade mix, strongly consider the sort of musicality you’re looking for and how it will impact the pyramid overall.

8. Dance

No cheerleading routine is complete without a dance. You and your team have got those amazing dance moves that you have spent the whole summer mastering and you’re ready to show them off. However, having that high-energy eight count mix that really highlights each individual movement is critical to maxing your score with the judges and impressing the fans.

There are a lot of elements in a cheerleading routine so mapping the skills out to your cheer music will help make your routine score the best. Consider your friends at CheerleadingMix and NewLevelMusic as a potential solution for your music needs. Once you’ve gotten that amazing routine mapped out with all the skills and abilities of you and your squad, you’re going to put on the most electric performance ever.

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